Current Library Services Available: - Check out holds in the lobby. Face covering required.
- Holds can be placed on-line or by calling the library
- Dropbox and indoor book drop are open. No fines will be assessed on late items at this time.
- Curbside checkout of held items available for patrons not wanting to come inside or not able to wear a face covering.
- Submit print requests by e-mail and pick up prints curbside.
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STEM at the Library and Art Lab for Elementary Take and Makes Since we are not able to offer in-person programs at this time, we have created Take and Makes to take the place of our usual elementary-age programming. Art Lab kits and STEM kits for January are ready for pick up January 3. The Art Lab kit is a printmaking project and the STEM kit is an engineering challenge. A video for the STEM project is available here Call us at 503 324-1382 or send an e-mail to BanksPL@WCCLS.org
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Distance Learning or Homeschooling?Both can be a challenge! The library has lots of resources that can help. For instance, did you know that there are many full-text books available online through the Gale resources? WCCLS has created a page on their website to highlight educational resources. Check it out here. And, as always, give us a call if you need more help! |
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2021 Reading Challenge One way to get more out of your reading life is to participate in a reading challenge. These challenges can look a lot of different ways. It's no longer just about picking a number and reading that many titles. Many reading challenges have a series of prompts you can choose from to curate a reading list that's just right for you. In years past, we've offered print versions of reading challenges to patrons, but this year we thought we'd direct you to the variety available online. We have found that the PopSugar Reading Challenge is a great place to start. It has a lot of different prompts from easy-to-identify to ones you're going to need to ask a librarian about. Modern Mrs. Darcy is also a great place to craft a challenge, especially this year if you want to be more intentional about what you put on your list. GoodReads is a simple place to log a challenge as they have the old-school, set a number of titles challenge. Finally, check out this site for a thorough recap of the multitude of reading challenges to choose from.
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Banks Book Bloodhounds Are you looking for a fresh list of books for your "To Be Read" list? Banks Public Library now provides a book suggestion service for our patrons- The Banks Book Bloodhounds. Click here to fill out a few questions about your reading preferences and we will create a list of titles that you might enjoy. |
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Nothing to see here
by Kevin Wilson
Agreeing to help her former college roommate care for two stepchildren who possess the ability to spontaneously combust when agitated, Lillian endeavors to keep her young charges cool in the face of an astonishing revelation.
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Just like you
by Nick Hornby
Miserably married to a man with whom she once shared everything in common, Lucy forges an unexpected bond with her 22-year-old babysitter, a man from an entirely different class, culture and generation. By the best-selling author of About a Boy.
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Eventide
by Kent Haruf
Returing to the high plains region around Holt, Colorado, an evocative, profoundly moving novel of small-town life follows the challenges, emotional upheaval, tragedies, struggles, and intertwined destinies of the local inhabitants as they cope with the changes they encounter.
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Pine Island home
by Polly Horvath
Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors
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Savage Season : A Hap and Leonard Novel
by Joe R. Lansdale
When his old flame returns to LaBorde, Texas, with a scam to dredge the local river for half a million in long-lost hold-up money, Hap Collins and his buddy Leonard Pine, a black, gay Vietnam veteran, find themselves confronted with a killer named Soldier.
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The cold millions : a novel
by Jess Walter
Enduring the corruption of their union employment, two young day laborers are respectively drawn to a feminist activist and a vaudeville singer whose experiences reflect an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.
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Winter solstice
by Rosamunde Pilcher
Five people buffeted by life's difficulties come together at a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory winter solstice
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The last ballad
by Wiley Cash
In the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina, a young mother desperately tries to hold her family together when she joins a union to reclaim her dignity and rights
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Fortune favors the dead : a novel
by Stephen Spotswood
"A detective novel set in 1945, about two female private investigators trying to solve the locked-room murder of a society widow"
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The deep blue good-by [sound recording]
by John D. MacDonald
Travis McGee enters the picture when a complete stranger offers Cathy Kerr information about the whereabouts of her imprisoned father's missing fortune. Read by Darren McGavin.
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The long call
by Ann Cleeves
When a man with an albatross tattoo on his neck is murdered in North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn is forced to return to the strict evangelical community of his childhood, where his investigation uncovers deadly secrets
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All the devils are here
by Louise Penny
Horrified when his billionaire godfather is targeted in a near-fatal accident, Chief Inspector Gamache follows clues deep within the Paris Archives to uncover gruesome, decades-old secrets. By the award-winning author of A Better Man.
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All items returned to the library will be put into a quarantine before being checked in. This quarantine means that there will be at least a day delay from when you return a book to when it comes off of your account. No fines will be assessed as a result of this delay.
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